Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
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are very light ga are very light gray in color, but on freshly weathered surfaces are exceedingly dark, almost black. Specimen is numbered 1:30:2: A slight fault plane with accompany(2) ing fault brecciation is visible in the west side of the RR.cut, trending N.25 degrees east. Southwest of the RR.cut occurs a series of exposures over 100 feet broad of gray and green-gray bedded, typical, basic tuffs, striking N.60 degrees west, dip, 29 degrees N.E. At the southwest side of Wilson' Stream at the RR.bridge occur some 4 or 5 feet of gray shale, striking N.55 de grees west,dip 32 degrees N.E., and which are flanked on the southwest by a gabbro mass of which latter a width of 50 feet is exposed. The next exposure to the south is in central 1:30:4, at the RR.curve where occur some fragmental tuffs of the same type as 4:1:4:(1);i.e.- color on fresh weathered surfaces bottle green with conspicuous pink fragments. The most abun- dant fragments however are light and dark g gray in a matrix of green.